§ Mr. Pardoeasked the Secretary of State for Defence what information he has about the total cost per head of population of defence expenditure in the United Kingdom, United States of America, Russia, and the Common Market.
§ Mr. HealeyThe cost of defence per head of population in the United Kingdom is about £40 a year. I am not responsible for the figures of other countries, which can be interpreted in different 149W ways, and I am not prepared to add to the information which has appeared in non-official publications, for example, in "The Military Balance 1966/67", published by the Institute of Strategic Studies.